Interpreter Quotes

• To be a footballer means being a privileged interpreter of the feelings and dreams of thousands of people.

  

  Cesar Luis Menotti
  • Dreams
  • Privileged
  • Footballer

• My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer may not have thought of, but someone else created the fundamental idea.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • May
  • Job
  • Quality

• Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

  

  William Cowper
  • Blind
  • Vain
  • Unbelief

• An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

  

  William Jones
  • Different
  • Nature
  • Science

• I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

  

  Sarah Brightman
  • Music
  • Composer
  • Interpreter

• Look in; and learn the wrong, and right, From your own soul's unwritten laws. And when you question, or demur, Let Love be your Interpreter.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Soul
  • Law
  • Question

• Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

  

  William Whewell
  • Men
  • Interpretation
  • Interpreter

• One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Thinking
  • Playwright
  • Interpreter

• The voice is like a man, like ourselves: we all feel melancholic about what we have lost, the things we could do when we were young. But having the possibility to still perform is wonderful. The voice loses elasticity as you age, but on the other hand, maybe you are more mature as an interpreter, maybe your approach to singing deepens.

  

  Jose Carreras
  • Age
  • Voice
  • Interpreter

• I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Heart
  • Song
  • My Heart

• I would classify myself as, being an interpreter, basically, of what other people have written. I find something that I feel comfortable in – that I can put myself into – and that’s what I do, play it. I express myself through the music that someone else wrote. With the availability of so much good music, there’s no reason to play mediocre music just because you wrote it yourself, which some people do.

  

  Art Farmer
  • Music
  • Express
  • Interpreter

• A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

  

  Ruggiero Ricci
  • Sound
  • Pieces
  • Piano

• I don't have favourites, I think, when you play, you have to be like a prostitute, you have to love the piece you are playing. Even if you don't like it, you have to play it as if you would like it. Then you are a good interpreter.

  

  Ruggiero Ricci
  • Thinking
  • Play
  • Pieces

• Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.

  

  Suzy Kassem
  • Trust
  • Translation
  • Interpreter

• Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Poet
  • Interpreter
  • Foreign Country

• An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.

  

  Claudio Arrau
  • Work
  • Blood
  • Interpreter

• I work with intuition. With interpreters. I have my own method. I know exactly what I want from actors. Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Sometimes
  • Actors
  • Intuition

• The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Writer
  • Duty
  • Interpreter

• Sacred interpreter of human thought, How few respect or use thee as they ought! But all shall give account of every wrong, Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue; Who prostitute it in the cause of vice, Or sell their glory at a market-price!

  

  William Cowper
  • Giving
  • Glory
  • Dare

• Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Real
  • Interpreter
  • Emblems

• Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Embrace
  • Paradigm
  • Lenses

• I'm an interpreter of music.

  

  Sarah Brightman
  • Music
  • Interpreter